Show I I TRIBUTE TO FIRST U. U S. S CATHOLIC BISHOP BISHO Sketching briefly the early history j of I Maryland as a background ground for his work Henry Welsh of Park City gave an In Instructive In talk on Archbishop John Carroll CarrollI the first Catholic bishop of ot the United I States before beCore the Knights of oC Columbus I yesterday Apart from his church work it was pointed out that in 1776 when a I committee d composed P of oZ Benjamin n 1 i k llin Hn Un Samuel Chase and Charles Carrol Carroll of I Carrolton was about to be sent by the Continental c congress to seek the neutrality neutrality neutral neutral- It ity of Canada during the War Val of ot Independence Independence Independence i dence by special resolution Bishop then I Father C Carroll was requested to be one of the committee ott This I constitutes S a sincere and national 1 tribute to his learning sound Judgment and wide Influence in a day too when heavy penal penal laws existed against Catholics In the colonies Mr elsh said said- |